President Trump's approval rating of 42% outpaces Jimmy Carter's and Bill Clinton's ratings of 39% each in the August of their second year in office, and narrowly tops Ronald Reagan's 41% rating in August of 1982. https://t.co/UujvvhC7ec pic.twitter.com/zKf9WQHCCZ

— CNN (@CNN) August 14, 2018

He has made some decent decisions but is always bashed by the mainstream media and is always in controversial situations. I would have expected his approval to be much lower.

Not surprising. He's doing good for the country in spite of the media's constant bashing of him and the left's hysteria.

Deficit is increasing like crazy. Hilarious for a 'conservative' to be spending so much money and taking the whole country further into the red. Has started a trade war with America's largest trading partners. He has degraded trust in American leadership on the global scale by constantly belittling our allies in NATO and has shown unparalleled admiration for dictatorial leaders like Vladimir Putin and Kim-Jong Un. He implemented policy to separate young children from their parents.

Would love to hear specific examples of the 'good for the country' @Aeolus451 Do you have any or do you merely speak in vague nonsense?

awesome,great to see

i suggest steering clear of attacks. 

same goes for you @aeolus. please keep generalizations away. 

Well the people loved hitler too, so it can say more about us the people when we choose certain leaders

He'll most likely get elected for a second term. The US election cycle is like a pendulum and will continuously shift back and forth between the 2 parties. Anything bad that happens during Trump's administration will be used as ammo by the Democrats to discredit the Republicans and this exact cycle will repeat for continuous years with the Republicans trying to discredit the Democrats. This same exact cycle's been going on for over 25 years and it's not going to change anytime soon.

you nailed it. thats the way our system works, ''we want change'' then get 8 years of their selected candidate, then say ''this is not what i asked for, i want someone new'' then they vote for the next one, repeat. Smartie lives up to his name, hes a smartie ^___^

I don´t know how long US can sustain with that back-and-fort mentality. Surprising that a leader that globally so hated has such good approval rate in the US :/

Tells a lot about the American people. Can’t say I’m surprised by what we experience here every day. A big part of Americans have always been deeply egoistic and narrow minded at heart. They should really leave their country more.